| The Tania And Jori Continents - Lost In The View Electronic | 12/04/2012 |
Tania Bowers and Jori Hulkkonen are not only a highly dynamic pair. The Tania and Jori Continents have combined their musical abilities to create a truly amazing sound.
A beautiful, electronic atmospheric piece, with an uplifting sense and inspiring dynamic.
| Ellesquire - Ready Hip Hop | 30/08/2011 |
Ellesquire is a rapper whose honesty and charm is rarely heard within the Australian hip hop scene.
"Ready" is a track symbolising the readiness of Ellequire's art form in Australian hip hop. With cool beats and a funk, it's a chill back tune fit for any afternoon.
| The Laurels - Black Cathedral Rock | 12/08/2011 |
Sydney's The Laurels are a four-piece that has been described as a mixture of My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, The Scientists and even a hybrid blend of The Beatles.
"This warped, grinding, bluesy tune has all the hallmarks of the stoner come wall-of-guitar sound - a churning rhythm, spacious, climbing riffs and a hypnotic melody, all brooding storminess and agitation. If it doesn't advance the genre much, it at least demonstrates how good it can be" - Beat Magazine
| Melodie Nelson - My Johnny Electronic, Experimental, Ambience, Pop | 05/07/2011 |
Melodie Nelson is the solo project of Lia Tsamoglou, one half of now defunct Sydney experimental drone duo Moonmilk and ex-bassist for alt-folk group Rand and Holland.
The first single from album 'Meditations On The Sun'
| megastick fanfare - Teething Rock, Pop | 05/07/2011 |
Megastick Fanfare is a young five-piece from Sydney. Proponents of experimental pop, the band uses a variety of instrumentation - both acoustic and electronic - to create its sound.
The track - much like the album proper - experiments broadly with texture and structure, while maintaining a firm pop grounding and melodic focus. Its infectious, counterpoint vocals are complimented by soaring horn lines, warm keyboards and expansive percussion.
| Major Chord - Tomorrow Night Folk, Pop, Acoustic, Experimental | 25/05/2011 |
After a year of recording and mixing Major Chord has emerged with a pop-infused, folk related, long debated work of art.
This time around Major Chord uses more percussion, sharpens the arrangements and delves a little deeper to deliver a result that is sometimes bleak, often hopeful, a little confusing but always true.
| Mike Noga - M'Belle Folk, Rock, Alternative Country | 10/03/2011 |
Mike Noga, best known for his work as the drummer for Australia’s most critically acclaimed rock band The Drones, releasing his second album.
Where have all the great albums gone? Where are the Highway 61’s and the Astral Weeks’? The albums that you go back to time and time again like an old blanket, to wrap yourself in their familiar embrace. To hear an artist REALLY pouring his or her heart out.
| Line Drawings - Sleeplines Rock | 21/01/2011 |
‘Take/over’ was crafted in the summer of 2009 at various places in Sydney’s inner-west, and later polished at either side of the Pacific by Wayne Connolly
"Sleeplines" crunches with effortless cool into a powerful chorus smothered under buzzing rhythm guitar and popping and buoyant lead lines that recall the work of Archers Of Loaf's Eric Johnson.
| Jinja Safari - Forest Eyes Folk, African, Pop, World | 19/01/2011 |
Jinja Safari is two equal halves, made up of harmonising frontmen & multi-instrumentalists Marcus Azon and Pepa Knight
"Forest Eyes" sounds like the theme song to Paul Simon building a beach tree house on a Caribbean island off the coast of Africa.
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| Dereb the Ambassador - Etu Gela World, Jazz, Soul | 19/01/2011 |
Dereb Desalegn is well known on the streets of Addis Ababa as one of Ethiopia’s most respected singers. After moving to Australia he now heads up Dereb The Ambassador.
The first cut from Dereb the Ambassador is “Etu Gela,” a dance floor filler taken from Dereb’s forthcoming self-titled album.
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| Karuna - It's A Beautiful Day Electronic, Hip Hop, Industrial, Rock | 19/01/2011 |
Hailing from the historic bushranger hometown of Braidwood, Karuna is a producer DJ, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who writes & operates from his home-studio, which he built with his own hands.
With the sing-along summer vibe of ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’, Karuna has created a genuinely unique sound that could be described as a collaboration between Beck, The Postal Service and Outkast.
| Scott Matthew - Community Folk | 19/01/2011 |
Scott Matthew was born in Queensland, moved to Sydney where he founded the punk-rock band Nicotine, and in 1997, followed a friend to Brooklyn, New York where he now resides.
"Community" has intimate folk-inspired moments that star
minimalist ensembles of guitar, piano and ukulele.
minimalist ensembles of guitar, piano and ukulele.
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| You Am I - Shuck Rock | 19/01/2011 |
You Am I have turned everything on its head with their ninth studio album
Something that’s different to many of their albums is the attention to great little sonic colours/moments, it’s there in the backward guitars and harmonics on “Shuck”.
| 78 Saab - All At Sea Rock, Pop | 19/01/2011 |
Listening to 78 Saab’s first three albums is like looking at old photos. Real photos. The kind of gems you keep in a shoebox marked ‘do not throw away’.
All At Sea is the type of rollicking rock numbers that balances out the tone of this album. This is certainly a beautiful album that drastically exceeds its price of admission.
| Amaya Laucirica - Climb Up High Rock, Psychedelic | 19/01/2011 |
If one were to summarise Amaya Laucirica’s music in a single word, that word would be transcendent.
Darkly suggestive and richly textured, “Climb Up High” – marries an edgy yet heartfelt vocal melody to instrumentation which is alternately distinct and blurry, conveying an impression of clarity underscored by uncertainty.
| Daily Meds - Everybody Get Pumped Hip Hop, Funk | 19/01/2011 |
The Daily Meds vocal trio strike hard with a special blend of tongue-trickery and not-so-savoury sooth sayery.
"Everybody Get Pumped" is all saucy stories of dance floor disarray and nonsensical party escapades rouse the crowd into a sweaty frenzy.
| Tuka - Tall Poppy Hip Hop | 19/01/2011 |
as a member of Thundamentals, Rumpunch and Sketch The Rhyme, it’s time for MC Tuka to distinguish himself as one of the country’s most exciting lyrical talents.
"Tall Poppy: is an upbeat yet laid-back horn and piano inflected tune, that sees Tuka doing what he does best, spitting liquid rhymes with a relaxed confidence built up over years of performing and recording.
| Nick Murphy - Tonight Rock, Pop | 19/01/2011 |
What was in Nick Murphy’s mind lately developed into his second full length record ‘What’s In Your Mind?.
"Tonight" is a well crafted song with a warm psychedelic emotion and gentle country elements.
| Chris Pickering - Fisherman's Daughter Pop, Folk, Country | 19/01/2011 |
‘Work Of Fiction’ is the third album from critically lauded Brisbane native Chris Pickering, and finds him exploring new territory and expanding on his core pop songwriting sensibilities.
Pickering takes his unique songs down a similar musical path travelled before by great roots-rich melodic pop artists such Big Star, The Jayhawks and Joe Henry, with a style and quality now less common in contemporary music.
